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 PUBLIC LAW 103-329—SEPT. 30, 1994 108 STAT. 2411 SEC. 517. Such sums as may be necessary for fiscal year 1995 pay raises for programs funded by this Act shall be absorbed within the levels appropriated by this Act. SEC. 518. None of the funds made available to the Postal Service by this Act shall be used to transfer mail processing capabilities from the Las Cruces, New Mexico postal facility, and that every effort will be made by the Postal Service to recognize the rapid rate of population growth in Las Cruces and to automate the Las Cruces, New Mexico postal facility in order that mail processing can be expedited and handled in Las Cruces. SEC. 519. None of the funds in this Act may be used to reduce the rank or rate of pay of a career appointee in the SES upon reassignment or transfer. SEC. 520. No part of any appropriation contained in this Act shall be available to pay the salary for any person filling a position, other than a temporary position, formerly held by an employee who has left to enter the Armed Forces of the United States and has satisfactorily completed his period of active military or naval service and has within ninety days after his release from such service or from hospitalization continuing after discharge for a period of not more than one year made application for restoration to his former position and has been certified by the Office of Personnel Management as still qualified to perform the duties of his former position and has not been restored thereto. SEC. 521. (a) None of the funds appropriated by this Act may, with respect to an individual employed by the Bureau of the Public Debt in the Washington Metropolitan Region on April 10, 1991, be used to separate, reduce the grade or pay of, or carry out any other adverse personnel action against such individual for declining to accept a directed reassignment to a position outside such region, pursuant to a transfer of any such Bureau's operations or functions to Parkersburg, West Virginia. (b) Subsection (a) shall not apply with respect to any individual who, on or after the date of enactment of this Act, declines an offer of another position in the Department of the Treasury which is of at least equal pay and which is within the Washington Metropolitan Region. SEC. 522. None of the funds made available in this Act may be used to provide any non-public information such as mailing or telephone lists to any person or any organization outside of the Federal Government without the approval of the House and Senate Committees on Appropriations. SEC. 523. COMPLIANCE WITH BUY AMERICAN ACT. —No funds appropriated pursuant to this Act may be expended by an entity unless the entity agrees that in expending the assistance the entity will comply with sections 2 through 4 of the Act of March 3, 1933 (41 U.S.C. lOa-lOc, popularly known as the "Buy American Act"). SEC. 524. SENSE OF CONGRESS; REQUIREMENT REGARDING NOTICE.— (a) PURCHASE OF AMERICAN-MADE EQUIPMENT AND PROD- UCTS. —In the case of any equipment or products that may be authorized to be purchased with financial assistance provided under this Act, it is the sense of the Congress that entities receiving such assistance should, in expending the assistance, purchase only American-made equipment and products. (b) NOTICE TO RECIPIENTS OF ASSISTANCE.—In providing financial assistance under this Act, the Secretary of the Treasury shall New Mexico. Mail. Computer technology.

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